Reform-minded San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan has called the level of state funding for Prop. 36 behavioral health services a “joke ...

Implementing Proposition 36 is costing county government tens of millions of dollars at a time of major budget uncertainty.

The county sheriff’s office reports that the number of people in its jails has swelled since the state initiative seeking to ...

Prosecutors in three Southern California counties have charged more than 13,000 people under Proposition 36, the tougher-on-crime law passed overwhelmingly a year ago this week, according to data ...

Out of more than 320 Proposition 36 drug cases in San Mateo County — where repeat offenders can seek treatment in lieu of ...

One year after California voters passed Proposition 36, Los Angeles County Public Defender Ricardo Garcia has warned that the ...

As advocates for crime victims across the state, we thought policymakers had finally realized that political rhetoric, ...

Prop 36 proponents promised safety, accountability, and mass treatment. California’s getting more mass incarceration instead.

The unanimous vote also calls for more money for community-based treatment, case management and reentry support.

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It’s a Wednesday afternoon in Department 1203 at the Central Courthouse, and the man in the defendant’s chair is anxious. The next morning, he’ll be released from jail and expected to put his name on ...